The Great Midwest Relay – The Finale
Hour 23 and finish It was hot. It was humid. Michelle had a 4+ mile run ahead of her. She hadn't slept much, hadn't trained much and had already completed two other runs. She had a 5 minute lead on…
The Great Midwest Relay – That’s a lot of money
After my last run, it was off to Zion, Illinois for breakfast. The Star Lite restaurant was the lone choice. Fortunately, Applebees was closed. Kudos to the Star Lite because they had a pretty good breakfast, but more importantly they…
The Great Midwest Relay – The fourth phase
I lost all power on the cell phone that I'd been using to do those hourly posts so I wasn't able to give a race wrap-up. Then on Saturday and Sunday, too tired to post. Here's what happened during the…
The Great Midwest Relay – Hour 12+ – Running with coyotes
Coyotes, darkness, vans getting lost. This is fun! Of course, I'm in the van so I don't get the full experience. The thing about night time running, it's so scary you run much quicker. I'll be losing power soon so…
The Great Midwest Relay – Hour 7 and 8 – Juggling and Running without balls
I'm up next. Unfortunately, I've lost a couple of my joggling bags!! I now have to run with a completely new set and they're not even Gballz. Oh well. I'll do the best I can. It's getting pretty dark (9:00).…
The Great Midwest Relay- Hour 6 Finally in the race
Hour number 6 - We're in the race Michelle was the first person from our van to run. It was only 3 miles so we had to get to the hand-off area pretty quickly. The instructions are good but they…
The Great Midwest Relay – hour number 4 Waiting with a Uke
Hour 4 After the great bowling outing it was time to wait, and wait and wait. There is a lot of waiting during these relay races. I juggled a bit more just to keep fresh and put on my running…
The Great Midwest Relay – hour number 3 Bowling in WI
hour number 3 We finished lunch and made it to our first transition point. According to Van 1 we are in "last place". Sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. We didnt know what we were going to do until…
The Great Midwest Relay – hour number 2
hour number 2 While we wait in Mill Lake, we eat at Mulligan's Mill of Joseph Megan's. Six runners, six Miller Lite beers. Now this is a race a joggler can embrace. But only 1 for this juggling runner. I've…
Great Midwest Relay – The race starts
The race starts. First runner up is Lisa. She starts with a 'We got Balls' t-shirt, a contraband iPod and a pink runner skirt. She even held the Gballz as the race started. We headed off to the 6th exchange…